Some 50 banana plantation workers and leaders of agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARB) cooperatives in Davao del Norte are urging the office of the Ombudsman to fast-track the graft case against Davao del Norte Representative Antonio Floirendo.
Activists vowed to greet United States President Donald Trump with a series of protest actions once he arrive in the Philippines for the East Asia Summit on November 10.
Davao City Archbishop Romulo Valles said the government police should not only be condemned in carrying out the government’s anti-drug war but the public should “inspire” them to do their job according to the rule of law.
Authorities here arrested the wife of one of the leaders of Maute group in Barangay Tubod, Sunday morning.
The Philippines slipped from 7th to 10th place on the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Gender Gap index 2017 was to be blamed on government’s economic policies with Filipino women earning less compared to men by large amount, a women’s group said Friday, November 3.